Don't blame immigrants – they aren't the ones wrecking Britain

PUBLISHED: 01:48, 4 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:18, 4 August 2013


The Government’s pretence of being resolute and decisive on immigration is a lie. It is almost as bad as New Labour’s secret decision to transform the country with migrants.
Do they really think that hiring a couple of stupid publicity vans, fraudulently claiming that illegal migrants are in serious danger of arrest and deportation, will fool anybody? Alas, they do.
Will you be fooled? I beg you not to be. I beg you, instead, to be angry and vengeful, and to make that revenge hurt, to vote UKIP as often as you can, to destroy the wretched ‘Conservative’ Party which so insults your intelligence.
Suspect passengers: David Cameron is engaged on a slippery and dishonest propaganda campaign over immigration
Suspect passengers: David Cameron is engaged on a slippery and dishonest propaganda campaign over immigration
It is because he knows that you are rightly worried about immigration that David Cameron is engaged on his slippery and dishonest propaganda campaign. He personally couldn’t care less about the problem. 
It doesn’t threaten his job or push his wages down. It doesn’t alter his neighbourhood beyond recognition, trapping him in a place where he no longer feels welcome or at ease.

  

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As he doesn’t know what Magna Carta means, and has never heard of the Bill of Rights, I think we can safely say he’s not that worried about the disappearance of our once-beloved culture of law and liberty. 
He's even got a Minister – Nick Boles – whose job it is to destroy the countryside. If Britain becomes a featureless concreted-over province in a Multiculti Euroland, he won’t care. 
He’ll still be rich enough to afford peace and space, when they have become impossible dreams for the rest of us.
For him, and those like him among the Relaxed Rich, immigration means cheap nannies and cheap restaurants. 
For his friends in business it means cheap and easily bullied workers. For his friends in New Labour (whose heir he is and whose seat in power he is  keeping warm), it means even more. 
Unlike Mr Cameron, the Blairites knew what they were doing when they opened our ports to all who came.
A secret government paper, circulated among Ministers in October 2000 (but censored before being released a year later), revealed their aim was to ‘maximise the contribution of migration to the Government’s social and economic objectives’.
What were those objectives? It’s easy to guess, looking at this collection of 1960s campus revolutionaries, spiced up with unrepentant ex-Trotskyists and ex-Communists, and cheered on by the anti-British London media classes.
But in fact we know. A typical London liberal and New Labour speechwriter, Andrew Neather, boasted about it  in October 2009  and then wished  he hadn’t.
He burbled about how immigration had been ‘highly positive’ for ‘middle-class Londoners’. He wrote: ‘It’s not simply a question of foreign nannies, cleaners and gardeners – although frankly it’s hard to see how the capital could function without them.’
He was even franker: ‘But this wave of immigration has enriched us much more than that. A large part of London’s attraction is its cosmopolitan nature. 
It is so much more international now than, say, 15 years ago, and so much more heterogeneous than most of the provinces, that it’s pretty much unimaginable for us to go back.’
That’s an interesting use of ‘us’, there. He didn’t mean you, I don’t think. But above all came this admission from the heart of government, where Mr Neather once worked. 
Controversial: Adverts have been driven around London on vans to encourage illegal immigrants to go home
Controversial: Adverts have been driven around London on vans to encourage illegal immigrants to go home
The opening of our ports had ‘a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural’.
Even this apostle of modernity was a bit worried. ‘I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn’t its main purpose – to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date. That seemed to me to be a manoeuvre too far.
‘Ministers were very nervous about the whole thing .  .  . there was a reluctance elsewhere in government to discuss what increased immigration would mean, above all for Labour’s core white working-class vote.’
I happen to think this brief glimpse of the truth was the most important political revelation of our time. I believe the ideas behind it still rule.
And in case you’re still fooled by Mr Cameron’s disgraceful pretence, take a look at the Commons Public Administration Committee report on the Government’s noisy claims to have cut immigration. It is devastating. It shows that the figures used by Ministers to claim they are closing the doors are little better than guesswork.
Migration into this country, legal and illegal, continues apace. The transformation of Britain into somewhere else accelerates. 
The official propaganda about economic benefits is mostly tripe (see an excellent analysis in Ed West’s powerful new book The Diversity Illusion). The pressure on schools, GPs, hospitals, housing and transport is huge and growing.
We have been betrayed. It is not the fault of the migrants, with whom we must seek to live in harmony. But those responsible, in all the major parties, must be punished for their lies.
We were fooled once. It  will be our shame if we are fooled again.

At last... Prezza's found a job he's good at

John Prescott directing traffic in Hull
In his element: John Prescott directing traffic in Hull
Now we know what John Prescott was born to be – a big fat PC Plod, directing the traffic. 
His performance on point duty the other day – pictured left – was obviously the fulfilment of a lifetime dream. 
What a pity he ended up in the Cabinet instead, for him and us.
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Please let this latest grievous murder of a defenceless child not be used – yet again – as an excuse for snatching children from innocent families without evidence. 
Social workers who repeatedly miss real cases should be treated with caution when they level charges, not assumed to be right.
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Have you noticed how many public figures have started ending their sentences with the meaningless phrase ‘going forward’? 
Is it a coded signal to their alien controllers? Listen out for it and you’ll be amazed how common it is. 
Be very afraid.

Why don’t the windbags target Cairo?

If we admit that the Egyptian military coup IS a military coup, then the US, by law, has to cancel its multi-billion-dollar subsidies to Cairo.
Politicians and diplomats simply refuse to state the  truth, which nobody in the ‘West’ is allowed to acknowledge. 
The Egyptian junta is a murderous military regime installed  by violence. It kills its own people in very large numbers. The generals had a good long look at the Arab democracy we all said we wanted, and snuffed it out. Secretly, the West was pleased.
I couldn’t care less, personally.  But where now is William Hague, the scourge of Syria? And David Cameron, the man who overthrew Colonel Gaddafi? 
Or come to that, the capering, grinning Blair creature who overthrew Saddam? And the BBC, many of whose journalists wildly applauded the Arab Spring?
I hear no talk of a British intervention in Egypt, and I am glad. But a great deal of self-abasement is called for from these moralising windbags, and we should demand it every time they show their faces.
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